Call your championship title the World Series.
Don't invite the rest of the world.
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A substantial number of baseball's all-stars, in Major League Baseball, are not from the US. It's a popular enough sport elsewhere, but the best players tend to want to come to the US to play. About 25% of the players are foreign.
Same with basketball, which hasn't had an American MVP in 8 years. About 30% of the players are foreign.
Sure but that's true of a lot of football leagues too.
Most other leagues don't call their own championships/titles the "world" anything. American Major League Baseball explicitly calls its finals the World Series. The American NBA calls its winners the World Champions.
For those two sports and leagues, it's a pretty solid argument that those are the best players and coaches in the world at those sports, where the American leagues attract the absolute best talent.
It's harder to make that argument for soccer leagues around the world, though.
Being from a country and playing a sport in the country they immigrated to doesn't mean the country they came from is big into that sport...
What you're saying is like saying "many who like this very US specific food are not from the US, so that means that food is common outside the US."
How do you not see the idiocy of that?
I saw comments unironically saying last year was a true "world" series because the Blue Jays were in it.
Excuse me! Canada won it last year.
Once we annex the U.S we'll have to change the name.
Go Canada, but they lost last year.
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Call them both football, even though one is obviously hand egg.
I’ve heard it called “Pig Skin” before.
or gridiron
... well, there is that one brief moment they use a foot /s
There are actually two. Maybe three, if you separate FGs and extra points.
4: Kickoff, field goal, extra point, and punt.
Though kickoff is the only one where an entire legal play can occur without hands touching the ball, since the others require a deep snap from the center.
guess who called it soccer first? it wasnt america
I bet Frank Reynolds is good at hand egg.
Invent a sport
Export it to all your colonies
Have them all kick your arse at it every season
#winning
Edit: crickets, guys. I'm very clearly talking about cricket
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The Australian version is: Invent new sport. No one else in the world is insane enough to play it.
Personally I would like to participate in the motorcycle chariot race, but then again I'm a Californian Redneck so basically an Aussie alternative.
Idk the Irish do a decent job of it and quite often hand us our arses at it as well
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Hot take from an American: American football actually fucking sucks big time and is incredibly MAGA coded these days.
People supporting a sport that 90% of former professional players acquire CTE are fucking morons. Especially given how many young kids get into this shit in highschool, and get CTE and become absolute pieces of shit because of it.
Its baffling this sport and sports with similar problems are still popular, let alone the most popular ones in the US.
All I remember about American Football was how fucking slow the pace of the game was compared to literally every other mainstream sport. It was definitely designed for a fat ass country.
You dont want to watch 20 minutes total of game play, 974 ads, 40 minutes of dudes squatting in a line, 20 minutes of B-roll and 60 minutes of random people in the crowd, every week for several weeks, while also needing to pay 5-7 services to catch all of your favorite team's games?
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Gotta have time to talk, drink, take a piss, get a snack, argue about the last play, etc.
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Highschool? Everyone i knew got in in elementary or middle school. Those who tried to start in highschool never even touched the field
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I'm surprised the US never found a love for rugby, it's a brilliant sport to play and spectate but it tends to be a fair bit less dangerous to its players than American football. There's various reasons but the lack of protective gear is a factor people talk about a lot ironically.
Interestingly go far back enough in time and they evolved from a common ancestor, but nowadays there's little to unite them other than fact they're both full-contact ball sports.
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If the US side is referring to baseball they lose all the time on the world stage
Football or football?
The name football comes from England I thought, where they called any game played on foot football as opposed to being on horseback or some shit. So rugby was football. The U.S. version of such also was known as football. Hence why Australia also calls Australian Rugby, football or footy.
The word Soccer comes from England, too. It's a Britishized version of "association football" with a typical R appended.
In that case, tennis is football, volleyball is football, bowling is football, snooker is football (or perhaps footballs?)
You've open Pandora's box of football!
So it's all football?
Always has been.
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You’ve given the basis for ‘soccer’, which is an abbreviation for association football or footballer as I understand.
In Australia we play footy, and we also play a different game called rugby
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Or move to really small country like Luxembourg, Malta, Andora and be a country representative player
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